Re: Time for a new Module::Build release manager

On 3/7/2011 6:06 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:43 PM, David Golden<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Since then, my own use of Module::Build has declined, as much of my
>> need for it as an author has been replaced by Dist::Zilla toolkit.  At
>> the same time, I've taken on additional responsibilities with P5P,
>> CPAN PAUSE administration, and other parts of the toolchain.
>>
>> Therefore, with the release of 0.3800, I am retiring as Module::Build
>> release manager.  I will continue to contribute occasional patches,
>> particularly relating to any bugs uncovered in the new CPAN Meta Spec
>> v2 support added in 0.3800, but do not plan to release any more
>> tarballs to CPAN, short of a major flaw in 0.3800 requiring an
>> emergency fix.
>>
>> I encourage interested parties to speak up and volunteer to take on
>> the release manager role.
> I'm not particularly interested in improving Module::Build. I am very
> much interested in cannibalizing pieces of its code to make them
> reusable for the second generation of Build.PL builders, which will
> hopefully obsolete Module::Build in the future. Depending on your
> point of view this would make me either the worst or best possible
> candidate to manage Module::Build. In either case I do not think I
> would be doing it for more than just a handful of releases though.
>
> Leon
>

Well ... this raises a question. Whither Module::Build?

Is its future simply to be the precursor to Dist::Zilla? Or to be wrapped
up as a Dist::Zilla::Simple?

I'm on this list because once I found out about Module::Build, I transferred
my modules over to it as fast as my little fingers could edit them, and I
wanted to learn more as it developed. I like it, it was and is a much easier
system to use, and if it doesn't have an independent future I'd like to see
it become a bridge to an even easier system, not simply broken apart.

     -john